Scott Burke

I like the rest of you just can't believe that Superman is dead. He was my childhood hero, and now he's gone. I'm very sad and shocked by this news.

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David Galindo

Wow. How random. Jeez...

I dont think Ive ever seen Superman all the way through, and I think its a good time to. RIP Reeves We'll miss ya.

Bill Williams

I first heard about it this morning as I was driving to work. Paul Harvey announced it, and you'd have thought a sledgehammer had hit me in the gut. I was in shock, and I still am.

When I was 12 years old, I told my 7th grade teacher Suzanne Davis, whom I had a crush on, that I hoped to be, as the song "Down Under" goes, "six foot four and full of muscles," and I showed her a picture of Chris as Superman. For me, as for many of us here on HTF and on Digital Bits, "Superman" was one of the iconic films, if not THE iconic film, of our youth. Even into college, when a group of six- and seven-year-old boys wanted to go see "Robocop", I wanted to see "Superman IV". And as if by magic or wish fulfillment or something, I became six foot four, muscular, and very healthy and athletic. Some women I dated said I looked quite a bit like Chris.

When my dad began his downhill spiral from strokes and Parkinson's disease, the only thing I could identify with was what Chris was enduring with his paralysis. It gave me something I could relate to. In March 2002, only three weeks after my dad passed away, I very nearly had the opportunity of going up to the University of Mississippi to see Chris. He made a special appearance there at the university's annual Charity Bowl football game to accept an $85,000 donation to his paralysis foundation from the fraternities who'd raised the money for spinal cord research. They'd even given Chris a #38 jersey with his name on it, in honor and memory of Chucky Mullins, who had also been a paralyzed quadriplegic and an Ole Miss student. Chucky didn't live very long, about a year or two after his accident. But I wasn't able to go to Ole Miss. I had to go to Albuquerque to attend a K-12 videoconference as part of my job training.

I should have gone to Ole Miss instead.

Right now I'm just heartsick beyond words.

\"I have in my heart what it takes to run with the big dogs in this life, and nobody can say otherwise.\"

\"Attention all personnel. Tonight\'s movie is a holdover from last week and will be shown right after supper, which is also a holdover from last week.\"

Voon Jiet

My sincere condolences to the Reeve family on their loss. I am deeply affected by this news, as Chris Reeve was my hero when I was a kid, and in many ways, he still is. He is a true inspiration to us all.

He will always be Superman in my eyes.

R.I.P. Christopher Reeve

PS: It just occured to me that one the space of this year, we have lost Chris Reeve and Marlon Brando, who played Kar-El and Jor-El respectively in Superman: The Movie.

Simon Massey

I echo the sentiments expressed here. I always thought he would walk again. He was an inspiration in film and in real life..

Like Harrison Ford will always be Indiana Jones, Christopher Reeve will forever be Superman and is the standard by which all other Supermans will be judged. I cannot imagine anyone topping him.

RIP.

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When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high, And don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of a storm, there's a golden cloud, and the sweet silver song of a lark,
Walk on through the wind, Walk on through the rain, Though your dreams may be tossed and blown,
Walk on, Walk on, with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone,
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!

Robert Powers

Mr Reeve has always been my favorite celebrity. Every since I was in high school I have had people come up to me and tell me that I looked like him. I remember about nine years ago when someone told me that and then the next day he had his terrible accident. I was so sad to hear that. A couple of years ago I dressed up like "Superman" for a Halloween party. I felt like I was "Superman" because Mr Reeve was such an inspiring person and a wonderful actor.

It is so sad that he didn't get to walk again before he died but he sure has accomplished so much in his life even after the accident. He has given other victims of paralysis so much hope since he has attributed so much to the stem cell research.

He will never be replaced. He was a super man!!!

Britton

There's a USA Today newspaper holder that I walk by every weekday morning on my way to class, and that's how I found out this bad news. I just stood there staring at the front page for a few couple of minutes with this dour look on my face. In practically every picture taken of me in the early 80s I'm wearing a Superman outfit or a Superman shirt. I've watched Superman and Superman 2 countless times in my 23 years on planet Earth. Christoper Reeve defined the role of Superman and no one is ever going to live up to it. Unfortunately, I'm not so familiar with the other work he did.

We can all know for sure though that he never gave up the fight to try and walk again. May we all be so lucky to go out with half the dignity and class he did.

Zen Butler

Vince, that was very sweet. That symbol says it all. This has an eerie sadness. Heartbreaking.

RIP

Lin Weiwen

My childhood hero.
My inspirational figure in adulthood.

Saddening this news may be but I think that Reeve has regained his powers and freedom now. He is walking now.

And he flies too... high above the heavens...across the curvature of the Earth...towards the rising sun in the horizon..Just like the closing scene of SUPERMAN.

And he smiles and looks down upon us from high above.

Because he knows all is well when Superman is around.

All is well.


Reeve, you will be sorely missed. You will always be Superman in my heart. The ONE and ONLY Superman. No other future imposters or contenders of the Superman role can snatch that away from you. You are THE Man of Steel in film and in real life. You are the inspiration for all of us.

Rest in peace.

You will always be with us. In our hearts. In our minds.

William-V

Like many, I am speechless. I can't believe it, but I can feel the tears coming on for someone I never did meet. This just reaffirms, for me, what I always felt about Christopher Reeve. He was someone who inspired me so much as a child... and then even more so as an adult. He went from playing a great hero on the screen to becoming a truly great hero in real life and an inspiration to the world. He brought the part of Superman to life truer than any other actor... because he put a part of himself into that character.

Ron-P

Very sad. The world has lost a great actor and person.

Even though he was best remembered as Superman, his best roll for me was that of Richard Collier in Somewhere in Time. Infact, it was that movie where I found my daughter's first name, Elise.

Sometime's you reach what's real by making believe.

Nick Graham

One of my childhood heroes gone. Just a while back I was watching the Clark/Superman fight from Supes III (the only good scene in that movie), with the same grin on my face I had when I first saw it well over a decade ago.

A couple of nights ago I was flipping by Sci Fi and saw him on screen. It was John Carpenter's guilty pleasure remake of Village of the Damned. Even in something so blatantly cheesy, Reeve is great in it, not phoning it in as most actors would in such a B movie shlockfest. My prayers are with his family.
On a lighter note, has anyone questioned Mark Pillow?

Nathan Eddy

This is indeed depressing news. I don't understand how someone of his means dies of a bed sore ("pressure wound"). I know that these things can be serious, but I just don't understand how it happened. Isn't this something that can be prevented with proper care?

Ultimately, I suppose, it was Christopher Reeve living his life to the fullest that resulted in his death nearly a dec